Alabang Bulletin is giving away a laptop bag!

Well, the winner never emailed us again so we’re giving this one away again:)

Yes, we know you will look good in a World Traveller Flight Bag;p

You can either put your laptop or netbook (36cmx28cmx13cm) or other stuff when you travel around the Philippines or on you business trip somewhere:)

Anyway, we are looking for the lucky author of a comment made in any of the posts written from July 16 to August 16.

We will be entering the names/emails of the “commentators” in random.org to determine who will win the bag. Remember, more comments you make, the more chances for you to win the bag as we will enter your name with all the entries you make:)

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The history of the name “Muntinlupa” comes from at least three stories.

* First, its association with the thin topsoil in the area.
* Second, residents, purportedly replying to a question by Spaniards in the 16th century what the name of their place was, said “Monte sa Lupa”—apparently mistaking the question for what card game they were playing.
* Third, the topographical nature of the area, where the term Monte or mountain was expanded to Muntinlupa or mountain land.

Some documents suggest that the first and third versions of Muntinlupa and Monte sa Lupa respectively eventually became Muntinlupa either through misspelling or mispronunciation. But no record to date can firmly establish which of the three versions is historically correct.

Muntinlupa is an old term that refers to a barangay hence called as Munting Lupa (which means a smaller branch of a city or a municipality, often referred to a county) now known as the Población. As early as 1800, the Catholic priest Father Joaquín de Zúñiga chronicled it as La poblacion que sigue se llama Muntinlupa and Muntinglupa was used as the Tagalog term for the city during the American era.

Nice laptop bag…..Good luck to all of us…..BTW, Alabang Bulletin in FB is a big help to all of us even though I’m already staying in Cavite, i still love to read all that you are sharing here in FB….Keep it up!